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Performance TitleRoyal Choral Society (Forty-Sixth Season 1916-1917) - Christmas Carols
Performance Date23 December 1916
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersCarrie Tubb,
Emily Shepherd,
Dora Arnell,
Walter Hyde,
George Parker - vocals,
H L Balfour - organ,
R A Greir - pianoforte,
Miriam Timothy - harp,
Arthur Payne - violin
ChoirsRoyal Choral Society
ConductorsSir Frederick Bridge
Set ListChristmas Motet for Doble Chorus, 'Now Once Again Our Hearts We Raise', founded on an Ancient Chorale,
Carol for Quartet and Chorus: 'In Dulci Jubilo', XVIth Century Melody, harm. R L de Pearsall (Emily Shepherd, Dora Arnell, Walter Hyde, George Parker),
'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind', Sir Hubert Parry (Walter Hyde),
'When Icicles Hang by the Wall', Sir Hubert Parry (Walter Hyde),
Carol: 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen', trad.,
Carol: 'From the Cradle', arr. from a XVth Century Melody (Walter Hyde),
Aria and Chorus: 'O Holy Night', Adolphe Adam, arr. John E West (Carrie Tubb),
Carol: 'Jesus To Us, To God a Son', From the Aberdeen 'Cantus' (1662), arr. Sir Frederick Bridge,
Choral Song: 'And Did Those Feet', (Jerusalem) Sir Hubert Parry,
'Nazareth', Gounod (George Parker, Miriam Timothy),
Carol: 'The Shepherds Went Their Hasty Way', J F Barnett,
Aria: 'Wings, White In The Dawn', adapted to Handel's 'Largo', Sir Frederick Bridge (Dora Arnell, Miriam Timothy),
Carol: 'The First Nowell', trad.
INTERVAL
Motett: 'Whom Saw Ye, O Shepheards', Richard Dering (1618),
Carol: 'A Babe Ys Borne I Wys', Sir Frederick Bridge,
'A Carol of Bells', Stanford (Emily Shepherd,),
Carol: 'En Natus Est Emanuel', from Musae Sioniae, Pars VI., 1609, arr. Michael Praetorius,
Carol: 'Remember God's Goddnesse', T Ravescroft (1611),
Aria: 'Ave Maria', Bach, arr. Gounod (Carrie Tubb, Miriam Timothy, Arthur Payne, H L Balfour,),
Carol: 'What Child Is This?',
Air: 'Greensleves',
'A Christmas Song', Mr Wardle's Carol from Pickwick Papers, Sir Frederick Bridge (Walter Hyde),
Quartet and Chorus: 'When The Crimson Sun Had Set', trad., arr. S S Greatheed (Emily Shepherd, Dora Arnell, Walter Hyde, George Parker),
Carol: 'Good King Wencelas', Spring Coral of XIIth Century (Emily Shepherd, George Parker),
Christmas Hymn: 'Adeste Fideles',
'O Come, All Ye Faithful'
Performance NotesThis was the very first time that Hubert Parry's 'Jerusalem' was sung at the Royal Albert Hall.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1916/45), Prospectus (RAHE/1/1916/46)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1916/45Royal Choral Society (Forty-Sixth Season) - Carols23 December 1916
RAHE/1/1916/46Royal Choral Society - Prospectus (Forty-Sixth Season, 1916-1917)28 October 1916-28 April 1917
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OnavehyditisRoyal Choral Society (Forty-Sixth Season 1916-1917)8
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/189Tubb; Carrie (17 May 1876-20 September 1976); English soprano singer
DS/UK/4427Shepherd; Emily (fl 1910s); British singer
DS/UK/4281Arnell; Dora (fl.1910s); British contralto singer
DS/UK/360Hyde; Walter (1875-1951); English singer, actor
DS/UK/1586Greir; Robert Arnold (fl 1914-1967); English organist
DS/UK/5366Timothy; Miriam (fl 1896-1918); British harpist
DS/UK/1620Payne; Arthur W. (1863-1932); British violinist, conductor
DS/UK/4770Parker; George (fl 1914); British singer
DS/UK/1613Bridge; Sir; Frederick (5 December 1844-18 March 1924); CVO; English organist, composer, teacher, writer
DS/UK/49Royal Choral Society (RCS); 1872-; English choir
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